The start of another month! It's October and the challenge this month on the Sheepski Designs blog is Autumn Colours!
For my inspiration this month, I used Kamsin coloured with Nuvo alcohol ink markers and a touch of Nuvo Jewel Drops for her glasses. I paired her with a sentiment from Unity Stamps, a little stencilling, paper lace, and an alcohol ink background.
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I love the many colours of Autumn. The world just seems to want to explode in technicolour.I have much fondness for colouring red hair, so I gave into that again when I used Nuvo markers to colour Kamsin. I like the rich colours of the Nuvo markers. They have a bullet and a chisel nib and are quite reasonable, especially on sale and with a discount coupon as a Hedgehog Hollow member :) I now have nearly all the sets. They released one more set after I bought my latest batch. Their support is top-notch, too. There were a dry marker and semi-dry marker in the batch I bought. I contacted support and they had two new sets out to me within a couple days. I was impressed at how quickly they responded.
For the background, I used an alcohol ink panel I made a few days earlier when I just wanted to play with inks and colours and the new pearls I got. I used Ranger alcohol ink surface I had in my stash.
I decided to use some of the paper ribbon I got a few months ago. I used Distress ink and a sponge blending tool to give them a custom colour.
I square trimmed Kamsin on three sides and fussy cut the rest. I decided to have her looking in on a sentiment panel and did a dry fit to see if my ideas would work together. I used the retired Stampin' Up Natural White for the sentiment panel and card base because it has an off-white more organic look.
I stamped the sentiment using Distress Oxide and then when adding Kamsin to the sentiment panel, I smudged the not quite dry ink. To 'fix' it, I stencilled a leaf frond in a lighter colour over the sentiment to look like it was behind.
I cut the alcohol ink panel into strips so I could pick and choose which areas I wanted visible. Nothing is behind the sentiment panel 'cause it would be hidden there. I did one last dry fit to see what else I might want.
I added everything 'flat' to the card base before adding the one gold leaf that's popped up.
Inside, I added a strip of the alcohol ink background.
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Challenges
Scrapping 4 Fun: Vintage Autumn
Crafty Gals Corner: Autumn Colours
More Mixed Media: Anything Goes/Brown
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Anything Goes
Outlawz Twisted Thursday: Anything Goes / Something starting with "R" (red hair)
Beautiful card, lovely background and I love the sentiment!
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Full of wonderful autumn colours! How beautiful Rijacki and I love that sentiment
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